It's all fun and games until

[prog]

The Big Dig has started to kill people by randomly squishing them. God dammit you guys. (link from doctor_atomic)

My extended sympathies to the folks who drive through his tunnel daily; I predict... delays.

But seriously, I find myself being increasingly bothered at the news that the city's most (in)famous public works project has officially been elevated to Deathtrap status... what, not even five years after its completion?

Comments

[jadelennox]

Here I thought it would be the flooding from the substandard concrete that would kill us.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

There's still time for that.

[spatch]

I like the Turnpike Authority guy telling us not to worry, the parts that fell were in the oldest part of the tunnel.

The ten-year-old tunnel.

Meanwhile, the MTA advises motor vehicles take the Callahan and Sumner tunnels, one of which is forty-five years old and the other seventy-two, and the MBTA is advising travellers use the Blue Line to get to the Airport, which travels under the water in a tunnel that opened in 1904.

I'm not aware of any Blue Line tunnel fatalities.